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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next RFC 09/13] devlink: Add enable_remote_dev_reset generic parameter
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On 7/29/2020 11:57 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:42:12 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>> On 7/28/2020 3:59 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:02:29 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>>>> The enable_remote_dev_reset devlink param flags that the host admin
>>>> allows device resets that can be initiated by other hosts. This
>>>> parameter is useful for setups where a device is shared by different
>>>> hosts, such as multi-host setup. Once the user set this parameter to
>>>> false, the driver should NACK any attempt to reset the device while the
>>>> driver is loaded.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com>
>>> There needs to be a devlink event generated when reset is triggered
>>> (remotely or not).
>>>
>>> You're also missing failure reasons. Users need to know if the reset
>>> request was clearly nacked by some host, not supported, etc. vs
>>> unexpected failure.
>> I will fix and send extack message to the user accordingly.
> I'd suggest the reason codes to be somewhat standard.
>
> The groups I can think of:
> - timeout - device did not respond to the reset request
> - device reject - FW or else has nacked the activation req
> - host incapable - one of the participating hosts (in MH) is not
> capable of handling live activation
> - host denied - one of the participating hosts has NACKed
> - host timeout - one of the p. hosts did not ack or done the procedure
> in time (e.g. has not toggled the link)
> - failed reset - the activation itself had failed
> - failed reinit - one of p. hosts was not able to cleanly come back up


Sounds good, that seems to cover all options of fw_reset process to fail.

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